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and she therefore trusted that he would cease his impor- 
tunities, but she dreaded his revenge, as she knew that 
if any opportunity should ever arise whereby he could 
injure her or Tuanoa, and escape the observation of the 
people from the apparent justice of the act, he would 
seize it with avidity, and this was the cause of her 
dejection. 
The king, Hoapili, had been dangerously ill for some 
days, and the active mind of Kinau saw the dreadful 
chasm which might be opened to receive her in the 
event of the king’s death ; — she knew that Nahi the 
chief had the power of naming one of the victims for the 
sacrifice, and the thought almost bereft her of her senses 
—she well knew that Tuanoa, the brave and beloved 
Tuanoa, would be sacrificed to his revenge ; and under 
these trying circumstances, the constitution of Kinau 
began evidently to decline, much to the grief of her 
lover, who perceived his lovely companion, like a beau- 
tiful flower, beset by the night-working canker-worm, 
which silently robbed it of some of its beauties ; he 
saw the devastation it committed, but he could not dis*> 
cover its retreat,— Kinau still kept the secret within her 
own breast. 
One evening as, to their minds, the sun was once 
more going to rest in the dark bosom of the ocean, 
the lovers reclined on the shelving and moss-covered 
rocks, which are near to her house, in the beautiful 
vallev of Menoa — as the broad-leaved banana waved 
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around them, and fanned them with the sweet-scented 
evening air, when, just as the Pele of Nuanu cast its 
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